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the 3 words aren’t for us they are exclusively for the search and rescue team who we talk to when buddy breaks his spine and needs an airlift

And you can avoid the ovens vs oven problem by just picking a coordinate with good simple words the helicopter is fine to find you within a few hundred meters of your camp

This system has been used extensively in remote resource extraction because humans in the pressure of an emergency can recall words and phrases better than numbers

It works pretty well for this use case




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